Sure whatever ;)
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Sure whatever ;)
Great Cyndi Lauper cover
Non-HP MG/YA series that are rich in magic & exploration & coming-of-age, & are actually really really good, to share with kids in your life: - Lioness Rampant, Pierce - Chrestomanci, Jones - Percy Jackson - A Wrinkle In Time!!!!! - URSULA LE GUIN’S EARTHSEA BOOKS - Akata Witch / Akata Warrior!!!!
There’s a lot of times I actually think “they accidentally made this disability friendly,” but I don’t usually point that out bc people might move to restrict if they realized. Shout out to university programs that are built to include “non-traditional” students.
This is good news, but we also need to be seriously talking about a national guard/military alliance. This administration isn’t going to stop coming after what they perceive as “Democratic states” unless we have the power to make them stop.
The young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed comes out in just 4 weeks and for this book tour I’m focusing primarily on cities in the South, visiting states where people have attempted to ban or challenge the adult version of the book. Hope to see you out there! www.clintsmithiii.com/events
I do candidate recruitment for a living. One of our top rules: You never want to *convince* someone to run for office. You want to open the metaphorical door to them, and then if they say yes, help them walk thru it. Someone you have to beg & plead to run is not going to be a good candidate!
I CANT WAIT FOR DETROIT TO LOSE TO THE LYNX YES SOUNDS GOOD!
Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?
"BEST ON THE PLANET"
excited to be buying tickets for a spanish exchange student who is sporty and likes women's basketball to see the lynx (even if I can't go). Since "it's the best women's basketball team on the planet."
yeah, I figured (and bet hedging on social is wise! I was just wondering if you had an example in mind)
do you think one ever exists without the other? Can you think of an example (I can't, but you know more!)
lol.
you gotta target just right and also sell your own house first
Then divorce.
GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN
Every single thing you like and admire and find illuminating or thrilling about HP exists in other books, movies, & series EXCEPT the birth-to-death-scale entertainment-industrial infrastructure of merch and licensing
this is good from @realrollo-koster.bsky.social! #medievalsky www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...
Like you’ve never built an earthquake machine because you had bad neighbors …
One of my favorite stories about Sparta, mostly because I find it funny that most people cut out what happens after the "If".
This is the correct call
Sparta: come and take it Persia: you bet Persia: ok now what
great point Harmeet, just the one q: who won the Battle of Thermopylae?
Waiting for the reporting that tackles obsessing over Trump's health less as committed conspiracy theory than simple fervent hope for his sudden demise—like wanting Duke to lose or hating the Yankees, except that it might save millions of lives.
I mean you said something without evidence and, to the extent you have an argument, I've already addressed it and refuted it. So kindly fuck off. This dismissal is, you'll note, less casual.
ok buddy
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
useful note.
there's lots of savvy ways that machine learning is being deployed to generate new information; also, sometimes it helps me identify birds and plants.
Rose are red Wellies are boots You are predictable And so I hit mute(s)
that's a ridiculous analogy and makes exactly my point. By labeling it "denialism," you're deploying a rhetorical strategy to dismiss people who disagree with you as "like climate change deniers." Maybe you're not introspective enough to recognize the strategy, but I think you do know.
I'm so sleepy
anyway even if we grant the AI > office junior (I don't grant it), does the office junior help teenagers commit suicide?
I find his "denialism" as a phrase fascinating, trying to turn "AI is bad" into an ideology, even a bigotry, so it can then be dismissed. It aint an "ism" to think AI is bad, even if we are sometimes overstating things.
hey UK friends! @lollardfish.bsky.social and me will be visiting to talk about our book OATHBREAKERS at the Wantage Literary Festival in Oxfordshire - Monday 27 October at 4pm Tickets are available but limited! come see us! #medievalsky #booksky wantageliteraryfestival.co.uk
This is awful and also, notice the key difference. It is much, much harder to kill high numbers of people with a crossbow and a stun gun than it is with, you know, actual guns. “Well-regulated militia” indeed.
Not as funny as you think you are
Sedated dental work for the oldest today. Which means we are at the hospital and all very sleepy.
Can you imagine what we could do in this country if we actually started caring about each other?
I went long on the WNBA CBA negotiations, attempting to separate fact from fiction and counter bad-faith attacks. Take a dive into the nitty gritty with me! "The WNBA has proved that it can survive. With this new CBA it needs to set itself up to thrive." www.powerplays.news/p/the-facts-...
Ok everyone agrees I get at least 48 hours to be obnoxious about this
There IS a machine that can detect heart problems in mere seconds and it's called an EKG and it was invented in 1895 you fucking clowns
Nice town too. Loves rutabagas
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
My contract with Blizzard ends in one month. I'm still looking for a fulltime role as a senior writer or narrative designer! If you need someone who can write poetic prose, emotive dialogue, and sharp stories, I'm here. ✨
You will not be surprised at the ultimate reveal about the owners.
I remember that guy!!
this turned into Let’s Remember Some Red Sox Relievers
Well that’s the bad news. The good news is Austin Butler will have never had an easier time landing a role.
this is very good.
Obligatory repost
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
it is! And unsurprisingly, given Newman! I'm just interested in this kind of genre choice.
"In comparison to the 100s (conservatively) of mass shootings that have taken place in the U.S. ... since 1996, there has been only 1 mass shooting in the U.K. during that period, and zero in Australia. ... In the U.K., every year but 1 since has seen successive drops in the rates of gun crimes."
"I don’t care what motivates mass shooters. It doesn’t matter if they’re motivated by far-right white nationalism, QAnon, radical Islam, delusion, sexism or revenge. Without access to guns, these motives won’t result in mass shootings; it’s that simple."
it is possible and I agree it's an issue.
Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, the Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire | The Journal of Law and Economics: Vol 61, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... I've been discussing how post Covid (the plague) there was violence and targeting.
trump take coffee
I mean both great in their ways!
It’s interesting to me that the task here is not to write a book review, but to describe the life of boccaccio with scant reference to what the books say that might be new or different or more accessible. I enjoyed the essay don’t get me wrong! But that early remark held me. I wanted more.
This held me up: “it begins with an account of the plague in Florence, painting a vivid picture of its grisly symptoms and the social breakdown that followed in its wake. Boccaccio survived the plague of 1347 but Santagata, his biographer, died in the plague of 2020.”
The American dream
“How is the far-right outrage machine going to hastily pivot away from gun policy this time?” Good piece from @minnesotareformer.com minnesotareformer.com/2025/08/29/h...
It's worth pointing out the role of journlaism in this. That Politico article was deliberately incindiary even though we knew that by May 2020 the risk of outdoor transmission was low, the protests emphasized masking. By August we knew that police killings didn't go down even during lockdown /1
'universities are not companies...their leaders do not play a direct role in fulfilling the academic mission. Their role is twofold: to ensure the financial solvency of the institution, and to create the conditions in which academic staff and students can pursue excellence. Both are essential.' 1/2
Highly efficient
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I want to do a podcast called the dork ages but it’s been done
Dork
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Everyone can do what they like! Customized filter controls make this a great platform.
Oh I just figured out the “without saying X, what’s your favorite …” is mostly generated by the same account. And I am sure they are lovely. But whew, mute …
They won’t know how Hail Marys work, that’s for sure.
This wouldn’t have happened if VT hadn’t cut their religion department
One interesting crossover of this that I’ve seen: mom influencers who film car content from pick-up lines. It’s a whole genre, complete with subgenres.
He could fix me
Anyway how about them bills (I’m very nervous)
Right. Our governor is talkin' about getting COVID vaccines for oru state (he got vaccines straight from China and shipped here)....
Apparently the OP is Canadian. Maybe MN could invite Canadian centers of disease control to come help out here, establish an outpost.
I don’t know what it means specifically in this context. I think it might be worth being more specific.
“Act” might mean seeking impeachment, but that’s less likely than seeking resignation via mass public outcry - yet these guys have no shame and won’t resign. Maybe state AGs arresting officials like RFK when they come to town.
“Act” might mean a 100% unified front linking the harms emerging to RFK and the GOP, trying to get locals to blame republicans for everything that’s getting worse in their lives?
“Act” might mean blue states forming a pan-regional compact for disease control.
I have been talking and writing about antivax and eugenics among the woo woo left, the shameless grifters, the eugenicist elite, the religious right, and the racist right (some folks are in more than one group), etc., for over a decade.
Ther ys power yn a union
Anyone told @lollardfish.bsky.social ?
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
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There is no justification for this. None.
FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (August 2026)
I feel like I did :) but escapes me now
"LFG. Whatever." Truly parenting words to live by.
Marxist-Blueskyist Thought
My pre-labor day reward was to get laid off, do me a favor and sign up to get my now-independent reporting and writing
“Ok so you will eat Cheerios three times a day, but only that, and only in your red chair with Elmo on? Ok. Sure. Deal. LFG. Whatever.”
Eventually (I think your kid is young?) you hope to just hope your kid eats. It’s … a lot.
Listen. I think that’s where we start to get the really uncomfortable bits about gender and whiteness and the status of being a soccer mom type. Some of the answer is that parents want it this way because they want to be the family with a mom who drives kids to school.
Now this? THIS is art.